--- title: But even as she touched his face, it changed, and became gigantic an… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: But even as she touched his face, it changed, and became gigantic and misshapen, with a large tongue that hung out of lips that resembled those of a cow; and it broke out into loud laughter, and disappeared. Who acts: Shrí, face, large tongue, lips. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shrí, face, large tongue, lips), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:10:23 # text = But even as she touched his face, it changed, and became gigantic and misshapen, with a large tongue that hung out of lips that resembled those of a cow; and it broke out into loud laughter, and disappeared. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 gigantic gigantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 misshapen misshapen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 resembled resemble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | Shrí | sight's face | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme | | 2 | **change** | past | face | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | face *not said here* | a large tongue | | | | gigantic *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **hang out** | past | a large tongue | lips | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | | 5 | **resemble** | past | lips | lips | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **break out** | past | face | | | | | into loud laughter *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into laughter=Result | | 7 | **disappear** | past | face *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/10/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/10/24/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/10/)